problems running Acrobat Reader 5

[Alexandre Oliva]

On Nov 13, 2003, Ian Pilcher <i.pilcher at comcast.net> wrote:

> Ulrich Drepper wrote:
>> #! /bin/bash
>> export LC_ALL=C
>> exec /opt/Acrobat5/bin/acroread "$@"

> Note that this will cause problems if you specify multiple files on the
> command line.  I found the following construct on Google, which seems to
> work with both multiple files and files with spaces in their names (no
> idea why though).

>      #!/bin/bash
>      LANG=en_US /opt/Acrobat5/bin/acroread ${1+"$@"}

${1+"$@"} is equivalent to "$@" except in some broken shells that
expand "$@" to "" when $# is zero.  I.e., where there shouldn't be any
arguments, they introduce an empty argument instead.  I don't know
that this affects any shells that run on GNU/Linux.

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